There is a lot of misunderstanding about what is happening in the world of web hosting.

There is a conspiracy crafted by large web hosting enterprises that have sucked in influencers driven by greed, taking advantage of consumers.

When you are beginning a blog, building your first affiliate marketing funnel or expanding your authority site, you need to understand how to not be misled by the web hosting industry and what web hosting solutions effectively align with your needs for your long-term business success.

Web Hosting Services 101

To gain and maintain audiences on your website, you need to have an excellent web hosting service.

What Is Web Hosting?

By definition, web hosting is the space on a server in a data center that is maintained and managed professionally to ensure your website is online, 24/7.

It is virtual real estate that your website lives on.

For instance, if a person goes to your website at 3 in the morning, they will still be able to access your site because it is hosted on a "computer" that is always online.

Now, these "computers," rented monthly or annually from a web host, are highly efficient web servers.

Web servers store the files and data that make up your website, so people can reach your website 24/7, are designed to be incredibly fast and can accommodate much more data and speed than our standard home computers.

They are not the regular laptops or desktops that you would see in your home or office.

These servers fill entire rooms or even entire buildings, built specifically to house these machines.

Differences in Web Hosting Options

There are three leading web hosting solutions that cover the majority of online business needs.

Dedicated Server - one web server whose entire storage (GB or TB) and resources (processor, RAM, bandwidth) that are allocated exclusively to you. With a dedicated server, speed is continuous for your website.

And today, Virtually all web host companies are actually subsidiaries of two big conglomerates – EIG and GoDaddy.

There is an appearance of competition between BlueHost, Domain.com, PureHost, HostGator, iPage, SuperGreen Hosting, and 76 other companies but they are all EIG.

EIG and GoDaddy offer millions of dollars to the owners of these great mom and pop web hosting companies and sadly, most of them cash out when these purchase options are offered.

Once the transaction is done, these big companies move in and initiate three immediate changes.

Three Negative Changes That Occur After A Buyout

I worked for a web hosting company that was bought while I was employed there by EIG. I experienced these three things personally and have seen it happen multiple times since then.

Workforce Reduction

The fastest way for a more prominent company to make more money is to reduce the number of staff.

As a result, the support system – specifically, the customer service becomes terrible.

With small web hosting companies, support wait times are typically only a few minutes, and then you get someone that can fix your problem.

After the mega-company takeover, this fast and efficient customer support is the first to go.

Wait times increase to an hour or more for support. When you finally get someone on the phone, they end up only being a call screener and are not equipped for solving problems.

You are then issued a ticket and informed you will be reached out to by higher level support via email in the next 48 hours.

Hence, if your website went down, it would take you an hour to get on the phone with someone, who would escalate your broken website issue to someone that will begin to look at it within 48 hours, if you're lucky!

Overloading Shared Servers To Cut Costs

The second thing that these big web hosting providers do after a buyout is they double, triple, or even quadruple the number of individual websites on every single web server.

This allows them to increase profits because they accommodate more clients with fewer resources.

Increasing the number of websites on a server is good for their business but not for yours.

In shared web hosting, the most substantial portion of the industry, you are sharing resources with others, based off of usage demand at any given time.

With most of the web hosting companies being owned by these two huge corporations, you may be thinking it’s quite difficult now to find which providers offer the best website hosting service.

Fortunately, there are still companies that deliver exceptional services.

What Is The Best Website Hosting Service For You?

When choosing a web hosting provider, we want excellent customer support and to know that the server our website will be on is secure, reliable, and fast.

To accomplish these needs, you can spend as little as $6 a month up into the hundreds of dollars per month.

How do you determine the amount you need to spend?

Traffic

If you have less than 100,000 web visitors per month on your website AND you are not appearing on the Dr. Oz show next week to promote your website, then a simple and inexpensive shared hosting plan (with a privately owned and reputable hosting company) is all that you need in this stage.

When you are consistently seeing more than 100,000 monthly visitors or 400 simultaneous web visitors after every email you send, you need to bump up to a dedicated server or virtual private server.

Shared Web Hosting Service - The $6 a Month Plan You Should Start From

Shared web hosting is where I started and is where you should start too. The benefit of shared web hosting is that it is incredibly inexpensive to start.

The shared web hosting company I am using on my DIY-Sales Funnel site, because my traffic on that site is currently below 400 users at one time, is A2 Hosting.

A2 Hosting is one of the few remaining good guys in the shared hosting world. And that is why I use and recommend them.

They are a cheap WordPress hosting service but really fast!

At around $5 a month, they will install WordPress for you, host your website on one of these behemoth computers, are available 24/7 with great support, include a free SSL and SSD license, and do all of the security patches for you.

Note that you only need their swift version and you can always upgrade with a phone call in the future.

A2 provides an included Cpanel subscription that will give you simple backend access to your server.

In Cpanel, you can view and edit your files, create and restore backups, set up an unlimited amount of email address at your domain, setup email forwarding, and more.

When you are receiving visits over 400 users at one time you need to upgrade to a virtual private server.

Then, when you are unable to achieve excellent load speed times or are experiencing other limitations because of the size or traffic of your website, move to a dedicated server.

BigScoots specializes in virtual private servers and dedicated servers and will cost from $55 per month and more.

Personally, Melanie and I ran on shared web servers for over 4 years until we started getting server errors every time we mailed our list with an offer to our website.The rush of 500 visitors to our site at the exact same time was more than the shared server could handle, and this is the point when we updated to a virtual private server with Bigscoots.Today, we run on one of their fully managed dedicated servers that costs several thousand dollars per year because we manage millions of visitors per year…

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Miles is a full time internet marketer who sells information products and a niche membership program with his wife, Melanie. Together they have created a lifestyle business that allows them true location independence and this blog where you get to see behind the scenes and see how they have built their online business from scratch.

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Great info! I've used BlueHost after having switched from iPage. I value the customer service aspect and thought BlueHost was one of the better ones at this. They usually help me out but I sometimes have to work through issues. Always on the lookout for better service so i may try out A2hosting.